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regard to the respective interests of the parties in the property .
TRAYNOR, HAND, WYZANSKI
222 CHURCH STREET
NEW SALEM, NARRAGANSETT 06555
(393) 876-5678
MEMORANDUM
Attorney Work Product
From:
Fiona McGregor
To:
David Greaves
RE:
The Meiklejohns
Date:
March 29, 1999
Attachments:
What is going on? I go off to Ireland for two weeks and return to find that Sophie Diehl is doing a Meiklejohn divorce. I had barely sat down at my desk this morning when Jennie burst in to tell me the news. (She was all wide-eyed, breathless; you’d think we’d been retained by Jerry Hall.)
It is irresponsible, not to say insulting to the divorce practice partners of the firm; an embryonic criminal lawyer who knows nothing about family law and who has been practicing law for 10 minutes is assigned the firm’s biggest, most important divorce case in years, and I am not consulted or even notified. How did this happen? Is it now firm policy that only Mather or Yale Law School graduates can represent the likes of the Meiklejohns? I can’t believe this is the way to run a law firm. I am stunned. There’s no other word.
cc:
Jason Bell
William Frost
Proctor Hand
Virginia Ladder
Felix Landau
Frank O’Keefe
Joseph Salerno
Katherine Sales
John Wynch
TRAYNOR, HAND, WYZANSKI
222 CHURCH STREET
NEW SALEM, NARRAGANSETT 06555
(393) 876-5678
MEMORANDUM
Attorney Work Product
From:
David Greaves
To:
Fiona McGregor
RE:
In the Matter of Durkheim: Legal Representation
Date:
March 29, 1999
Attachments:
At my request, Sophie did the intake interview because you were out of town. A few days later, Maria Durkheim wrote me, asking for Sophie to represent her in the divorce. If you’d like to read Mrs. Durkheim’s letter, ask Hannah for a copy. You couldn’t be more unhappy than Sophie, who has no interest in doing divorces, not even a Meiklejohn’s.
When a client asks for a specific lawyer, the client gets that lawyer. That’s how this firm is run.
cc:
Jason Bell
William Frost
Proctor Hand
Virginia Ladder
Felix Landau
Frank O’Keefe
Joseph Salerno
Katherine Sales
John Wynch
All About Eve
----
From: Sophie Diehl
To: Maggie Pfeiffer
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:14:55
Subject: All About Eve
3/29/99 4:14 PM
Dear Mags—
That divorce I’ve been roped into doing is heating up—not between the unhappy couple, as you’d expect, but in the office. Fiona is hopping mad. She wrote a memo to DG that was bristling with indignation and sent cc’s to all the partners. Four of them went out of their way to show it to me. Joe said it was
All About Eve
with the gloves (white or boxing?) off. I haven’t seen him so cheerful since we won the big WMU case. Needless to say, I am an object of her wrath—though DG got a dose of it as well. I don’t know why she dislikes me so much. She made a crack about Yale and Mather lawyers, but then everyone does. We can’t pass the bar, but we know our Rawls. I need to talk to my mother. She’ll tell me it will all be all right.
Sophie
TRAYNOR, HAND, WYZANSKI
222 CHURCH STREET
NEW SALEM, NARRAGANSETT 06555
(393) 876-5678
MEMORANDUM
Attorney Work Product
From:
Sophie Diehl
To:
David Greaves
RE:
In the Matter of Durkheim: Legal Representation
Date:
March 29, 1999
Attachments: Letter to Maria Durkheim
Attached is a draft copy of my letter to Maria Durkheim. It is perhaps not strictly correct for a legal document, but in its way it is responsive to Mrs. Durkheim’s and she will, I believe, take it in the spirit in which it is offered. Let me know what changes you think I should make.
I’ve asked all the Catholics in my family to light a candle to Saint Jude.
TRAYNOR, HAND, WYZANSKI
222 CHURCH STREET
NEW SALEM, NARRAGANSETT 06555
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
March 29, 1999
Maria M. Durkheim
404 St. Cloud Street
New Salem, NA 06556
Dear Mrs. Durkheim:
I am writing in regard to your request that I represent you in your divorce. I will be absolutely straight with you. I’m not the best person for
TRAYNOR, HAND, WYZANSKI
222 CHURCH STREET
NEW SALEM, NARRAGANSETT 06555
(393) 876-5678
MEMORANDUM
Attorney Work Product
From:
Fiona McGregor
To:
David Greaves
RE:
The Meiklejohns
Date:
March 29, 1999
Attachments:
What is going on? I go off to Ireland for two weeks and return to find that Sophie Diehl is doing a Meiklejohn divorce. I had barely sat down at my desk this morning when Jennie burst in to tell me the news. (She was all wide-eyed, breathless; you’d think we’d been retained by Jerry Hall.)
It is irresponsible, not to say insulting to the divorce practice partners of the firm; an embryonic criminal lawyer who knows nothing about family law and who has been practicing law for 10 minutes is assigned the firm’s biggest, most important divorce case in years, and I am not consulted or even notified. How did this happen? Is it now firm policy that only Mather or Yale Law School graduates can represent the likes of the Meiklejohns? I can’t believe this is the way to run a law firm. I am stunned. There’s no other word.
cc:
Jason Bell
William Frost
Proctor Hand
Virginia Ladder
Felix Landau
Frank O’Keefe
Joseph Salerno
Katherine Sales
John Wynch
TRAYNOR, HAND, WYZANSKI
222 CHURCH STREET
NEW SALEM, NARRAGANSETT 06555
(393) 876-5678
MEMORANDUM
Attorney Work Product
From:
David Greaves
To:
Fiona McGregor
RE:
In the Matter of Durkheim: Legal Representation
Date:
March 29, 1999
Attachments:
At my request, Sophie did the intake interview because you were out of town. A few days later, Maria Durkheim wrote me, asking for Sophie to represent her in the divorce. If you’d like to read Mrs. Durkheim’s letter, ask Hannah for a copy. You couldn’t be more unhappy than Sophie, who has no interest in doing divorces, not even a Meiklejohn’s.
When a client asks for a specific lawyer, the client gets that lawyer. That’s how this firm is run.
cc:
Jason Bell
William Frost
Proctor Hand
Virginia Ladder
Felix Landau
Frank O’Keefe
Joseph Salerno
Katherine Sales
John Wynch
All About Eve
----
From: Sophie Diehl
To: Maggie Pfeiffer
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:14:55
Subject: All About Eve
3/29/99 4:14 PM
Dear Mags—
That divorce I’ve been roped into doing is heating up—not between the unhappy couple, as you’d expect, but in the office. Fiona is hopping mad. She wrote a memo to DG that was bristling with indignation and sent cc’s to all the partners. Four of them went out of their way to show it to me. Joe said it was
All About Eve
with the gloves (white or boxing?) off. I haven’t seen him so cheerful since we won the big WMU case. Needless to say, I am an object of her wrath—though DG got a dose of it as well. I don’t know why she dislikes me so much. She made a crack about Yale and Mather lawyers, but then everyone does. We can’t pass the bar, but we know our Rawls. I need to talk to my mother. She’ll tell me it will all be all right.
Sophie
TRAYNOR, HAND, WYZANSKI
222 CHURCH STREET
NEW SALEM, NARRAGANSETT 06555
(393) 876-5678
MEMORANDUM
Attorney Work Product
From:
Sophie Diehl
To:
David Greaves
RE:
In the Matter of Durkheim: Legal Representation
Date:
March 29, 1999
Attachments: Letter to Maria Durkheim
Attached is a draft copy of my letter to Maria Durkheim. It is perhaps not strictly correct for a legal document, but in its way it is responsive to Mrs. Durkheim’s and she will, I believe, take it in the spirit in which it is offered. Let me know what changes you think I should make.
I’ve asked all the Catholics in my family to light a candle to Saint Jude.
TRAYNOR, HAND, WYZANSKI
222 CHURCH STREET
NEW SALEM, NARRAGANSETT 06555
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
March 29, 1999
Maria M. Durkheim
404 St. Cloud Street
New Salem, NA 06556
Dear Mrs. Durkheim:
I am writing in regard to your request that I represent you in your divorce. I will be absolutely straight with you. I’m not the best person for
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